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Africans are not smart enough to manage their own affairs’ (part II): True or False?

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  • KK 9 years ago

    I have not finished reading this lengthy article but I want to comment that the really fundamental problem is the IQ, mentality and values held by the living creature called the African. It is these elements that result in o ...
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  • Cantankerous 9 years ago

    By the way are you an African yourself? Judging by your comments you must be a fairly well educated African (Ghanaian) and by implication likely to share the same negative traits you have just described. I am puzzled by the f ...
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  • Odopa.com 9 years ago

    But when we come home to try to create and developed what we have learnt from the west - what do get from OUR own people? PULL HIM DOWN SYNDROM which ahs no cure. If you LIVE in Ghana - YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT that you need to be ...
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  • Odopa.com 9 years ago

    Well said my brother and I don't have to add anything else!!! Thank you!!!!

  • Nanasei 9 years ago

    Ghanaians living abroad are far better than those in Ghana simply because, their habits have changed. They are held accountable for their actions while those in Ghana have no idea what accountability is all about. They have h ...
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  • The Trucker 9 years ago

    Yes . Unfortunately you are correct. Lack of accountability and responsibility is killing Ghanaians.Even Ghanaians living abroad for a while come to mistrust their friends and relatives as a result of bitter experience. INTEG ...
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  • Benash 9 years ago

    Thank you Mr. Osie-Adjei for such an insight into leadership. I couldn't have agreed with you more since I also identify the same leadership problems with some close friends. Africa, and Ghana in particular is on a road to an ...
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  • ekow 9 years ago

    I believe Africans are smart enough. This is not about intellect it's about caring about the country to want to move forward. Nation building is not a political idea it's about raising the standard of the whole nation by shar ...
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  • PABLO 9 years ago

    In my opinion early leaders especially in Ghana abused the country with their education. Because few were educated they were held high and in some instances worshiped them, but they abused that and rather used their education ...
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  • Brother 9 years ago

    You are not getting the point. To truncate it to leadership is a bit problematic. We inherited the same thing from our masters, living in a cast system and calling it democracy. It is the attitude not leadership. We all are ...
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  • PABLO 9 years ago

    But i still believe that, especially after the overthrow of Nkrumah, most of the subsequent leaders out of their selfish habits turned the ordinary man to also be inward looking and care less about the nation at a whole.... A ...
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  • Wabee 9 years ago

    I have not finish reading your article, but let me give you my thought.Africans like power,so when you give african power he thinks everybody else should obey him. Nobody should do anything or has the right to do anything whi ...
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  • Clarence 9 years ago

    This is what I think very African leader must read and have a re-think. I think we cannot just manage our own affairs- consider the poor roads networks across most of the continent, poor delivery of health care to the people, ...
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  • Akua Mansa 9 years ago

    Africans are Pathetic as a people

    A times I wonder if our creator put the the same DNA in us as the white man. Quite frankly we are incapable of governing ourselves unless supervised by the Whiteman

    Maybe we ought to ac ...
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  • kwabena 9 years ago

    Akua mensah, you sound so bitter.can I humbly ask you what have you done in your own small way for the betterment of africans. Being it education ( patrick awuah), employment opportunities ( prince kofi amoabeng, effah of fi ...
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  • kwabena 9 years ago

    It's start with you!

  • Nanasei 9 years ago

    Akua, I understand your frustrations, and I do share the same sentiments. But, let's not give up, please!Let's encourage the youth and may be, things might change in the next millennium. It isn't gonna be easy but I sincerely ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Do not bank on that "change thing" because we are not program to change if things are not going the way they should.

    Just cast your mind back and look around you. There is nothing to tell that the African has the mindset ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    Ghanaians are smart as anyone from any part of the world but our actions and management of our national affairs shows us not to be competent people. Smart people are very good at learning or thinking about things or showing i ...
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  • Komla 9 years ago

    Excellent article and well written for that matter. Now regarding the sixty million dollar question "Are Africans smart enough to manage their own affairs". African are book/academically smart individually,however, we lack th ...
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  • Austiny 9 years ago

    Brilliant and thought provoking subject. Nations have developed through industrialization and technology. Can somebody tell me who own the few industries doing well in Africa? Why are more schools being established to pursue ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    We are not smart enough to manage our own affairs. That is an undeniable fact and there is no simple answer to give that will satisfy you. Let me use you as an example. Imagine being given the chance to lead. Trust me, you w ...
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  • GIWA 9 years ago

    THEES ARE THE WORDS OF BOTHA WHEN HE SAID THEY CANNOT TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES HOW CAN THEY TAKE CARE OF US

  • Jasmin 9 years ago

    I find your analysis interesting though for me its way too simplistic. Since you have studied how to manage complex organizations and concur that leadership is complex, i believe you know that complexity is not a uni-faceted ...
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